Designing an online sex education resource for gender-diverse youth

Calvin A. Liang; Katie Albertson; Florence Williams; David Inwards-Breland; Sean A. Munson; Julie A. Kientz; Kym Ahrens

doi:10.1145/3392063.3394404

Designing an online sex education resource for gender-diverse youth

Calvin A. Liang, Katie Albertson, Florence Williams, David Inwards-Breland, Sean A. Munson, Julie A. Kientz, Kym Ahrens

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Abstract

Transgender and gender-diverse youth deserve proper sex education, but current educational and clinical structures largely ignore their developmental experiences. As a result, many of these teens go online to seek crucial information. Designers and researchers alike can benefit from an understanding of the design needs of gender-diverse youth for sex education online resources. We recruited 19 gender-diverse youth, ages 15 to 21, to participate in a mix of in-person and online design methods. This research makes three contributions; 1) identification of preferences for where gender-diverse teens prefer to get certain kinds of sexual health information, 2) design considerations for an online resource, 3a) a new method for eliciting preferences, the Four Corners Exercise, and 3b) a new method for combining the Asynchronous Remote Community (ARC) method with in-person sessions. Through this research, we provide key considerations in developing an online sex education resource for gender-diverse youth.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	108-120
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450379816
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3392063.3394404
State	Published - Jun 21 2020
Event	2020 Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020 - London, United Kingdom Duration: Jun 21 2020 → Jun 24 2020

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Name	Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020

Conference

Conference	2020 Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	6/21/20 → 6/24/20

Funding

We are grateful to the participants in our study for their willingness to share their experiences. We thank anonymous reviewers and community partners for their valuable input and support. This study was funded by the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and the Center for Diversity and Health Equity at Seattle Children’s Hospital #24090057.

Keywords

asynchronous remote community (ARC)
gender-diverse youth
sex education
sexual health

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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Liang, C. A., Albertson, K., Williams, F., Inwards-Breland, D., Munson, S. A., Kientz, J. A., & Ahrens, K. (2020). Designing an online sex education resource for gender-diverse youth. In Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020 (pp. 108-120). (Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3392063.3394404

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